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my ds is 20 mos, and has had a cold for over a week. he is really congested, and now all of a sudden he has developed an intermittant whooping sounding cough, where he coughs and gasps for air. it has happened about 4 or 5 times today, and especially when he is trying to sleep. i have him sleeping right next to me as i type this cuz i am so worried.
i went to the whooping cough site where you can listen to the coughs, and his sounds like the classic whooping cough , but his coughing fit is only a few seconds long, not a minute or two. he hasnt thrown up from it or turned blue or anything...yet...
can a kid "whoop" like that without having whooping cough?
i ask cuz when he was a newborn he would gasp for air alot, esp when he slept. i was so freaked out about it but it went away as he got older. i am wondering if this is just how he deals with mucous, kind of chokey and gaspy.
i am sooooo afraid! he has never had a cough before period, so i dont have another cold to compare this to. all i know is his eys are runny, his nose is runny, and he seems wiped out, after a week of being sick.
please help, he is not immunized and i feel so terrible about that right now. i feel like getting him all his shots ! but then thats so scary also....i am very very worried...
i went to the whooping cough site where you can listen to the coughs, and his sounds like the classic whooping cough , but his coughing fit is only a few seconds long, not a minute or two. he hasnt thrown up from it or turned blue or anything...yet...
can a kid "whoop" like that without having whooping cough?
i ask cuz when he was a newborn he would gasp for air alot, esp when he slept. i was so freaked out about it but it went away as he got older. i am wondering if this is just how he deals with mucous, kind of chokey and gaspy.
i am sooooo afraid! he has never had a cough before period, so i dont have another cold to compare this to. all i know is his eys are runny, his nose is runny, and he seems wiped out, after a week of being sick.
please help, he is not immunized and i feel so terrible about that right now. i feel like getting him all his shots ! but then thats so scary also....i am very very worried...
